Port Forwarding on RV220W

[CC Estelle]

Hello,

I'm trying to find a router that can do port forwarding to other subnets. My current linksys has IP of 192.168.1.1, and only allows me to port forward to 192.168.1.x, but I need to forward to 2.x, 3.x, 4.x

I can see how to do this on the RV215W through the online emulator, but Cisco suggested I use the RV220W. Looking through the device emulator, I can't seem to figure out how I would set it up.

I'm not running business, it's just for testing at home.

[paolo bevilacqua]

Wrong forum, post in "small business - routers". You can move your posting using the actions panel on the right.

[CC Estelle]

moved to proper forum. sorry

[Clayton Sill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It surely is possable to be done but it can be different. What makes it worse is the emulator that is listed on the website is running the older firmware. Newer firmware beyond 1.0.1.0 has had the GUI changed around. So even if you get used to how to do it with the online emulator you will notice it is a little bit different still in the new firmware but not a whole lot.

What you would have to do is go under firewall and go under IPv4 Firewall rules. You would then add a firewall rule stating Wan to Lan (from zone To zone) with your source and destination (source will usually be any) and the "send to local server" would be the ip that you are forwarding to. Under the service drop back it will be a list of services that are common that you could use. If the service you are looking to use is not listed then you would need to create what is called a custom service.

This of course was just a quick run down. The port forwarding feature in this router gives you a lot of control and I would recommend checking out the admin guide for further details.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/routers/csbr/rv220w/administration/guide/rv220w_ag_78-19743.pdf

Other than that what is your main goal? You may not even need something flashy like the RV220w, the RV215 seems like it could do the job but seems to only go up to 4 vlans if I remember, could be wrong. It surely is a lot easier to set up at least in the RV215 though.

Hope this helps you out!

Thanks,

Clayton Sill

[CC Estelle]

Hi Clayton,

Thanks for the info. It sure does seem easier in the 215. I just like how the 220 has a gigabit switch, although for my purposes is it really needed.

If there is a better product, please suggest. I'd rather spend less $

In my home, I have a Cisco SG300-10 switch. I have 6 VLANs configured on that switch and they are connected to "servers" running VMware. Currently the switch plugs into a Linksys WRT54G router. That router has the IP of 192.168.1.1. What I'm trying to do is, if traffic comes in over port 443, I'm trying to redirect it to the server thats running 192.168.4.100. I cannot do this with the linksys router. There are other ports that I'm trying to redirect as well, but you get the point.

The only other thing is on one of my servers, it will have an IP of 192.168.4.100 but within the software configuration, I have to input my public (ISP) IP. So when traffic comes for that hostname over that specific port, it also will be passed through to my internal server.

Do you think the 215 is my best option, or is there something better? I was looking at a totally different brand but I like Cisco. Even though the reviews on these RV devices has been harsh

Thanks

[Clayton Sill · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Well the fact that you already have a gigabit switch (SG300) you may want to go ahead and get a gigabit router but yeah counting on what you are wanting to do on the network you may not really need it. If you are planning on passing a lot of local data though you may want to look into it. If you want something cheaper there are the RV180w or just the RV180 that isn't wireless you can look into as well that does just about the same as the RV220w. 

I don't think you'll do wrong though if you chose either the RV220w or the RV180w but I wouldn't get the RV215w. Not that anything is wrong with the RV215w but I am worried it wont do what you need because you have 6 vlans configured on your switch and the router can do up to 4 active vlans.

As for the bad reviews you've probably been seeing on these routers, I'd say that the hardware is great but there are a good bit of bugs in some of devices that could really mess some people up or may just not effect them at all. They did release a new firmware for the Rv180w that fixed port forwarding issue and haven't seen the forums flooded with RV180w in a good while. Rv220w has been out for a good while and gone trough a good bit of firmware upgrades and alot of the big bugs I would say are done by now. I would check out the release notes for these devices to see if there could be a current bug open that would cause any issues.

I hope that answers a lot of your questions. If you need any other information let me know. I used to work for Cisco Small Business phone support so I still got some knowledge on these devices but any of the new stuff or firmwares that could have come out I'm behind on.

Thanks,

Clayton Sill

[CC Estelle]

Hi Clayton,

Thanks so much. I'll decide between the 180w and 220W. I do use wireless, so that's why I'm looking at the W models. Otherwise, I'd have to get an access point and then that leads into a whole bunch of other questions